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- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 days ago:
Can you clarify what you mean?
This movement is all about giving consumers more power and reforming section 1201 of the DMCA.
Louis Rossmann is big on consumer rights and the freedom to repair movement.
Did you mean to reply to someone else?
- Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 2 days ago:
Following up on this. I sent an email out to the team and got a response already.
To summarize, they would rather the solution work through updates for security fixes, but they were willing to compromise if automatic updates were disabled with the option for users to manually update somehow:
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Initial email: > Hi, > > Just a quick question about this point in the bounty: > > - Restore the fridge to its original functionality, by removing any possibility of adverts being presented on the display (all other smart features must be retained) > > When you say, “all other smart features must be retained” does this mean that the solution must retain the ability to allow the fridge to automatically update its firmware if Samsung pushes out a future update? > > Would it be okay if, instead, we disabled the automatic update but still allowed the end user to manually update if they really wanted to? > > Or would it be okay if the end user could just reapply the solution after an official firmware update? > > Thanks,
><Redacted>Response: > Hey<Redacted>, > > Just chatted with the team, and we think it would be better for it to have updates, and optional ones sounds like a sensible compromise. We don’t want to sacrifice security for control. I hope that answers your question. Thanks! - Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 2 days ago:
Yeah, one of the main points of this project is to help them reform Sec 1201 of the DMCA.
As far as for how to do it, I’m not sure if you would have to come up with something that would work even through an official Samsung update. From what I can tell, it would be enough to have it work with Home Assistant instead while blocking future updates. It’s definitely worth a question to the bounty team to get clarification on that point though.
- Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 2 days ago:
Yeah, concerning the DRM part, the main goal of this bounty system is to help change legislation so that people are allowed to legally modify the things that they own.
Specifically reforming section 1201 of the DMCA. Right now, if you break the digital locks on the fridge to remove the ads and then publicize that information, you can get 3-5 years in federal prison. (With this bounty system you keep the information private between you and Futo).
So when they hear lobbyists say things like, “We believe this legislation is in search of problems that do not exist…” Louis can respond with “Well actually, millions of people use these products and if this person releases a solution to it, he goes to prison”
Louis talks about that in more detail here: odysee.com/…/after-17-years-of-repair,-i’m-doing:…
- Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 2 days ago:
- These fridges didn’t have ads when people first bought them.
- If you’re renting, usually the landlord picks the appliances.
- Submitted 2 days ago to videos@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 days ago:
Louis Rossmann’s Fulu Foundation put out a bounty for anyone who is able to come up with a way to modify the fridge to remove the ads.
The pot is currently at $11,558.00
…fulu.org/…/samsung-familyhub-refrigeratorsHe did a video on it here: odysee.com/…/we'll-pay-you-10,000-to-de-shitify-t…
- Comment on Totality at the Sea Stack 5 days ago:
Awesome image.
Minor nitpick here, but as someone who has actually experienced totality, there is one major issue with this image. During totality it gets dark to the level of a little after sunset (enough to trigger streetlights with automated sensors to turn on). Then, imagine looking in the direction of where the sun has already set and seeing the glow of a fading sunset. However, instead of coming from one direction, this glow is happening in every direction that you can see.
Basically there would be more color coming from behind the marine layer.
That being said, you could always claim that this is totality being experienced in some other solar system.
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- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 3 months ago:
Depends on whether their 3D printer could print out metal objects or not.
- Comment on Phantom Rusted Relic 5 months ago:
Looks like they hadn’t even finished fixing it up after the previous whomping it received.
- Comment on Subtitle Glasses 5 months ago:
I’ll take these over something that attempts to “dub” what they’re saying.
Some cool tech that’s likely coming about because of AI/ML. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Danteday/ComfyUI-NoteManager: A powerful extension for ComfyUI that enables adding notes to any node in your workflow. 6 months ago:
Oh man, the times I could have used this. Thanks!
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